Adjustable skirt.



no. 643396. Patented Feb. I3, 1900.

w. F. McGEE.

ADJUSTABLE SKIRT.

(Application fll ed Oct. 10, 189B.)

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THE NORRIS vrrzas co., PHOYO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON, n. c.

' UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

WVILLIAM F. MOGEE, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

'IADJUSTABLE SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,196, dated February13, 1900., Application filed October 10, 1898. Serial No. 693,099. (NomodeL'r To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. McGEn, a citizen of the United States,residing at J ackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Skirts, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable skirts whereinprovision is made for adjusting them to the size of the waist of thewearer; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide means foradjusting the waist size of a skirt, especially a yoke-skirt, so thatseveral sizes may be obtained in each skirt, thus avoiding thenow-existing necessity of keeping a large stock in store from which toselect, which necessity now practically excludes yoke-skirts from themarket; second, to provide a yoke-skirt which may be adjusted to changesof the wearers waist size, as by increasing or diminishing the amount offlesh or clothing, and, third, to provide a yoke-skirt with sizeadjustment which is convenient, best-fitting, and is neat in appearance.These objects I attain by the device illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a rear view of the upper portion of askirt embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the yoke or bandof the same, showing the manner of securing the skirt and flaps. Fig. 3is arear view of the flaps separate from the skirt.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughprovided with a placket PI I and is fastened to the yoke by gathering in plaits or without intothe seam of the yoke around from P to P the ends of the yoke forming acontinuation upward of the placket to the top of the yoke. IExtension-flaps D D and D D, Fig. 3, made of the parts E F and E F, Fig.3, and corresponding to the skirt construction, are detachabl y fastenedby hooks II and eyes I or otherwise to the ends of the yoke, as shown,graduating the waist size of the skirt to that of the wearer by theamount of lap of the skirt over the flaps, and in case of securing theflaps outside of the skirt instead of under it, as may be done, then bythe amount of overlapping of the flaps. The lower ends of the flaps Iusually secure together at K, Fig. 3, and tothe corresponding point K ofthe skirt asapivot-point of the adjustment. The skirt thus adjusted andin proper position on the wearer is fastened by the buttons G on oneflap in the reciprocal buttonholes G in the other, as shown at G G,Fig. 1. The means by which the ends of the skirt-yokes are fastened tothe flaps or the means of fastening the placket edges together is notessential.

I do not wish to confine myself to a yokeskirt entirely, as my devicemay be applied to skirts without yokes.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Pat-- In a skirt having a placket, the detachableextension-flaps D, D, composed of the parts E, E, and F, F,substantially corresponding in construction with the adjoining parts ofthe skirt, said flaps provided with serially-arranged fastenings I, I, Iwhich engage the fastenings H, H, H, of the skirt to connect them andform the desired length of yoke, sub stantially as and for the purposesdescribed and set forth.

WILLIAM F. MOGEE.

Witnesses:

MELVILLE MGGEE, DESSIE SNYDER.

